Riley Gaines shreds Biden promise to veto bill protecting women's sports: 'Catering to a radical minority'
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Via: vic-eldred • last year • 70 commentsBy: Brandon Gillespie (Fox News)
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Former Olympic gold medal swimmer Donna de Varona explains the need for a 'reasonable way' to allow all people to compete in sports while protecting fairness and safety in women's divisions.
Riley Gaines, a former All-American swimmer from the University of Kentucky, didn't hold back when reacting to President Biden's promise to veto a bill that would prevent biological males from participating in women's sports.
Speaking with Fox News Digital on Monday just hours after the White House released a statement slamming the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, or H.R. 734, Gaines said Biden's veto promise was evidence he was putting a "radical minority" ahead of women across the country.
"The President has declared that science, truth, and common sense no longer matter. In opposing this bill, President Biden is catering to a radical minority at the expense of women, who are 51% of the population," Gaines said.
President Biden (left) and former All-American University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines (right).(Getty)
"Equal opportunity, privacy, and safety in our sports shouldn't be controversial. The women who once advocated for Title IX should be outraged as this goes against everything they fought for. Female athletes of all ages, levels, and sports deserve better," she added.
H.R. 734 has not yet been passed by Congress, but is expected to come to a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives sometime this week.
In a statement, the White House said it "strongly opposes" the bill on the grounds that it would "deny access to sports for many families by establishing an absolute ban on transgender students."
Members of the House of Representatives participate in the vote for Speaker on the first day of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 03, 2023, in Washington, DC.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
It went on to call the bill "discriminatory," claimed such a law was "unnecessary," and that it "hurts families and students."
As part of the bill, educational institutions that receive Title IX funding from the federal government would not be allowed to "permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designed for women or girls."
The bill says that the sex of an athlete would be recognized only by their "reproductive biology and genetics at birth." The legislation would allow transgender female athletes to train or practice in a girls' athletic program, but only if no biological female athlete is deprived of a roster spot.
University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines reacts after finishing tied for 5th with transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta Georgia.(Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Democrats have made it clear that most or all of them will oppose the bill on the floor. The House Education and Workforce Committee approved the legislation in a 25-17 vote — every Republican voted for it, and only Democrats voted against it.
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Where are the women on this ?????
Polling shows most of them are with the LGBTQ+.
So many of the women, at least those who are open to polls are more loyal to the left than other women.
That is kind of disgusting.
No it doesn't.
But it is funny to see the Megan Rapinoes of the world support the right of men to play women's soccer. she made her mint. Doesn't seem to bother her that no one would have ever heard of her if she had to compete against men.
Megan is a true progressive.
Self righteous, selfish and batshit crazy. Hits all the marks.
Or she could be just scared to death of speaking her mind.
What's disgusting is the naked bigotry on display for a problem that happens less than stubbing my big toe.
I think it may be time for you to provide a link to the polling you mentioned
What's bigoted about it? What brought about this love affair the left has about trans people...who they don't give a shit about?
Are the lefties bigoted about the Riley Gaines of this world?
Why are they so devoted to imposters like Lia Thomas?
As it's become more socially acceptable to be "out" there are a lot of people finding out that their friends, co-workers and family members are part of the LGBTQ+ community. This shows them that not only are they not a danger to society, they are worthy of love and respect. Rational thinking people also stand against oppression of a minority group.
Why do you insist on lying like that here?
That’s some weak assed shit to be sure ...
Lies her ass off, too.
Democrats have to keep that culture war money flowing in.
As soon as gay marriage was won, suddenly the T got added. Getting men to play in women's sports and sterilizing minors became the new cause.
If they normalize mutilating children, what comes next?
Logically, it would be the thing that decent people object to most.
It will never end, that's for sure. If they get everything they want and it becomes perfectly legal everywhere for states to kidnap kids and subject them to transitioning surgery without parental consent, some other norm that we currently take for granted will become the new discrimination worse than the Nazis ever dreamed of doing, that's for sure.
Didn't one of the ancient Greek philosophers predict that a democracy would eventually become radical before it's death?
Thus far not a single woman has commented.
It's disturbing to know that so many people now believe that it is OK to genitally mutilate children.
I remember a time ... not long ago ... when people of both political parties were appalled to learn that Islamic radicals genitally mutilated young girls. Even Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, and many other "feminists" (including Hollywood entertainers) vociferously spoke out against such atrocities. Where are they today, and why are they radio silent about THIS mutilation?
It's amazing the number of voters the Dems are willing to lose over their unwavering support for sexually confused males with emotional problems...who comprise less than 1% of the population.
When trans folk get upset about lesbians being in a pride parade, you know they're all fucked up. This is not about being against gay, bi, or lesbian people, it's the harm they are doing to young children. I suspect that a large percentage of women with daughters are not particularly happy with the direction the Democrat party is going.
Amything that upends the norms of a civilized society has great appeal for them.
Nothing LGBTQ+ people do upends, harms or effects anything in my world. How do they effect you in any way?
You have denied the joy of sports to women.
THAT'S HOW!
They don't affect my life either....but they directly affect a lot real people's lives, or we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Six are dead in Nashville.
HAHAHAHAHA! That's just funny.
I'm not surprised by that response
Many, many more people died at the hands of straight white men, but no one's trying to cancel them. No one's trying to deny them medical and mental health care. no one trying to deny them an education or make them hide who they are and who they love.
Did they hold that "Revenge rally?"
Still no answer from the NT women.
Tsk. Tsk. Progressives now claim there were 7 victims, because the murderer of children was a victim to. Ask the protesters who took over the State Capitol.
Hate to see you called a bigot for not respecting her victimhood.
That goes with the territory. They have to be called out.
That was kind of a test to see who would buy it.
No, it's more a fact testing to see who will deny easily confirmed reality. You failed!
Proof won't be provided but that won't stop them from relentlessly spouting off the fiction.
It's amazing the number of Populist Republicans willing to lose voters over their unwavering support of bigotry. They lost on same sex marriage and will lose on the rest of their bigoted culture war. Most people just don't give a fuck what others do to themselves or in the privacy of their own homes after that simply being respectful of others is such a simple thing.
Bigotry means letting men beat women.
Let's see there are 3 women on and not a peep.
We aren't taking about men beating women. We are talking about people who've transitioned from men to women competing. Sports will eventually solve this issue. They could sort it out a lot faster and more fair if the bigots got out of the way though.
That is exactly what we are talking about. You can't get around it.
It is called gender discrimination. (AKA misogyny)
Now 4 women are on and not a word in defense of women.
It will get sorted out when the rules and regulations specify that biological males may not compete with biological females in certain competitive sports situations.
Your moronic statement that this objection by some amounts to bigotry is absurd.
What these ghouls are doing with their "gender affirming care" of young people is the other part of the problem.
You have no clue what you are talking about and that is where the bigotry breeds.
Bigotry is front and center when men are allowed in women's sports.
The issue had been solved for decades. It was created by progressives a few years ago.
You're talking about people taking unfair advantage. There is absolutely no sane defense of letting people born male play women's sports, or letting people who compete in women's sports while juiced up on testosterone.
It's moronic.
The fact is there are no "men's" divisions in most sports. There are women's divisions and open divisions, where people of either gender can play if they're good enough. There has never been a prohibition against women in football, baseball, or any other sport where men compete.
If you're trans, you need to compete in the open divisions.
Well, if you let them take puberty blockers there is no physical change, so there is that.
Castigating people as evil and broken when they are not, or shoving them in the closet as it was colloquially know - making them lie about their whole existence - is not a solution. It's just a different problem.
In some sport they may and in some sports they may not. Then again individually some may and some may not. This should be left up to people who actually know what these advantages are and are not - trained medical & sports medical people. Not partisan asshats.
That's a total misrepresentation of the issue.
In the overwhelming majority of sports, it is.
Competing against women is absolutely more advantageous than competing against men in the same sport. That's why we have separate divisions for women but not for men.
You mean like elite level athletes such as ... Riley Gaines? Or how about people like me who coached for 30 years?
You won't listen to those people because they wont tell you what you want to hear.
When you show me your sports medical and trans studies, then we'll talk. Until then it's just your opinion.
No.
No.
I'll listen to people who actually study how transitioning in sports works. Not some rando on the internet.
I'm not sure "more complete insanity" actually improves the situation.
As long as they agree with your politics, I'm sure you will.
So you get to define what other people can and cannot do because you feel it is insane. Fuck the other guy.
You seem to have no clue what my politics are. To me this shouldn't be a political issue.
So where is your call for pay parity and stand against rampant sexual assault in women's sports? 2 problems much, much more common than one trans swimmer.
It shouldn't be, but it's absolutely and only a political issue.
Almost everybody who has ever had any involvement in competitive sports thinks the idea that trans athletes playing against women is laughably moronic. Everybody with any shred of common sense agrees with that assessment.
The level of denial necessary to pretend that men playing women's sports don't have a massive advantage is just staggering. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they just don't know anything about sports, but in this case that's not enough of an excuse. They're either complete morons or determined to pretend that obvious truths don't really exist if they contradict the religion of liberal politics.
Your comments about "sports medical and trans studies" is a great example.
We all know that size and speed are advantages in most sports. We don't even need to get into bone density, skeletal structure, muscle mass and everything else. All of that has been accepted as obvious for thousands of years.... until.... it's inconvenient for liberal politics.
We don't need a study to tell us that 250lb linebackers are better than 150lb linebackers or 6'6 inch pitchers throw harder than 5'6" pitchers. We all see that, and liberals don't care about linebackers, so they don't try to deny the obvious. But as soon as we introduce a group they think they need to protect, every shred of common sense goes up in smoke obvious things are somehow no longer the case.
Ask yourself what Katy Ledecky, Michael Phelps, Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Murphy, and Missy Franklin all have in common besides medals. If somebody actually has to explain to you that a 6'4" swimmer has an advantage over a 5'4" swimmer, you don't know anything about swimming and probably don't know anything about other sports, either. If you don't think strength is a huge advantage, you've never actually watched swimming.... even on television.
Will Thomas was a thoroughly mediocre collegiate swimmer. After he declared he was female, suddenly he's a national champion. His times are about the same.
So as a coach, I wonder why we bothered to start women's swimming in the first place.
If you want better pay, you have to compete in the open division just like all the other top earners. There is nothing stopping women from doing that.
Good point. Maybe we should pass a law against sexual assault.
No good.
Try again.
One doesn't need to be a "trained medical & sports medical" person to understand the differences of XY/XX chromosomes ... or testosterone, body mass, and bone density. I learned all of that in high school and college biology courses.
Urp!
Day drinking again?
No, just a gag reflex. My natural reaction...
In Biden's America, real women are inadequate. Biden has elevated men behaving like women to aspirational role models for all women.
Do you really want to live in Biden's America?
Nope, not at all
Really? I would like to see the logic behind that statement.
So much for title nine, so much for feminist rights. All those who fought so hard for those rights, that are not speaking out against this, are nothing more than hypocritical cowards.
One and all .....
The nice thing about being independent is one gets to call out folk from both parties.
This is the most stupid thing that Biden has ever done!